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My name is Luke. Violet from agent called me last week and asked me to write for this blog today to tell you about how I moved to Canada. So today you can read my personal story. I agreed because Violet promised not to edit any of the things I say. She agreed to take the good with the bad.
I’m very excited! I hope you like it and that it helps you to follow your dreams.

Life before immigration
I will start at the beginning. I come from Capetown in South Africa. I have a lovely wife and a daughter who is now almost 4 years old. When we lived in South Africa we also had a dog called Foofers.
My wife and I worked very hard back in South Africa. I have a first degree in international relations, and my wife did not go to school because her parents couldn’t help her with the money to go study. My wife worked in childcare through a good friend who helped her get the job without a degree.
I had trouble getting a suitable job for my level, and ended up working 2 jobs. I worked as an office assistant during the day, and I worked night shifts in a security company. And still it was hard because our daughter needed glasses and life isn’t cheap.
Things weren’t easy at all.

When my wife’s boss discovered she didn’t have a degree, she was fired, and we felt completely lost. We decided we had to do something. I told my friend that we wanted to go. He told me he also wants to leave but he’s very worried about moving to a new country. He had already checked around and he found this company that helps people get to Canada. He wasn’t sure about it because he saw people said some things about it that weren’t nice, but most people said they help a lot and there were some great reviews. We read all the posts in this blog from the start of the year to now. It showed me there is so much to know, and the process of Canada immigration is so complicated. It also made me imagine my life in Canada – making enough money to have a nice life. To travel. To save for my daughter’s college.
I’m going to say now that truthfully, the price for the service was really scary. We work so hard for this money.
But I decided to talk to them anyway. No harm in just getting information.

Starting my immigration process
3 hours after I put my number in the contact form on their site, I got a call from a man called Sam Willis. He was very… intense. canada work visa process felt like too much at the time, but now I know he was taking his job very seriously and he cared very much. He was nice and he gave me all the answers, and he was so professional. Everything happened very quickly, and by the end of the call we were registered. I remember when I hung up the phone, Hannah (my wife) was standing next to me and she asked what happened. I said I don’t know! We laugh about it now.
Everything started to move very fast after that. We met more of the agents as we moved along the immigration process.

We started getting emails explaining what we need to do. We got a call from our agent to tell us how to use their online immigration system. It was very easy. And then they asked me about my education, and Hannah’s education. They asked about our jobs, our finances… everything. Then they sent me a list of documents I will need to be eligible for Canada immigration. They recommended that both my wife and I take the IELTS because it helps the chances if both of us can get more than 7 on our test. If you don’t know, the IELTS is the test that you have to take to check you English level. We learned about it from Violet’s article about IELTS in this blog. We found it very informative. I know they also accept a French test, but I don’t know much about it, so I can’t help with that.

Sam told me they will be sending my application for Express Entry in all the possible programs because I didn’t care where we live in Canada, as long as we manage to move there (although I highly recommend moving here to British Columbia. My daughter is really thriving here and loving the mountain view everywhere and all the nature and the clean air… it’s really more than read more I ever hoped).

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